I know it may be too late for this to be of any help to you now, but I live in Korea and my time is different.
I had the same problem a couple weeks ago and after searching the web I found this and it worked.
1. Open your registry (Click START, select RUN and type in regedit and click on OK.
2. click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER
3. Click on SOFTWARE
4. Click on MICROSOFT
5. Click on OFFICE
6. Click on WORD
7. Click on OPTIONS
8. Right click in the data field on the right and the "NEW" box is displayed.
9. as you position the cursor over the "NEW" box, a pulldown is displayed.
10. Click on DWORD value.
11. Change the name to LTOverflowRecovery.
12. Right click on the LTOverflowRecovery DWORD and a pull down will be displayed.
13. Click on MODIFY and change the value data to 1.
14. Save the registry and I think you may have to re-boot.
I did this with trepidation but it worked!
Best of luck,
fltsimtestguy